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Americans looking to land a first job or break into a dream career face their best odds of success in years.
Employers say they are abandoning preferences for college degrees and specific skill sets to speed-up hiring and broaden the pool of job candidates. Many companies added requirements to job postings after the recession, when millions were out of work and human-resource departments were stacked with resumes.
[...] "Candidates have so many options today," said Amy Glaser, senior vice president of Adecco Group, a staffing agency with around 10,000 company clients in search of employees. "If a company requires a degree, two rounds of interviews and a test for hard-skills, candidates can go down the street to another employer who will make them an offer that day."
Ms. Glaser estimates one in four of the agency's employer clients have made drastic changes to their recruiting process since the start of the year, such as skipping drug tests or criminal background checks, or removing preferences for a higher degree or high-school diploma.
Source: NOTE: Original submission referenced a paywalled page at The Wall Street Journal; this link appears to link to the same story, albeit with a stock chart for Intel Corp., included: http://www.4-traders.com/INTEL-CORPORATION-4829/news/Employers-Eager-to-Hire-Try-a-New-Policy-No-Experience-Necessary-27016610/
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @01:09AM (2 children)
Your argument is a straw man.
I'm saying that this sort of quasi-apprenticeship can emerge when there isn't this externally imposed risk of a loss.
And, we're not talking about culturally traditional, explicit apprenticeships in skilled fields; we're talking about general employment, including introductory, low-skilled jobs where one is learning the basics of a minimal work ethic (e.g., kids are climbing onto the first rung of economic participation).
FFS. Is there no end to the straw manning?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @06:40AM (1 child)
So basically you as a business owner want prospective employees to shoulder the majority of the risk of a new hire.
If I as an employee am gonna be the one taking all that risk anyway, then in that case I might as well stop being an employee and try to start my own business and compete with you, since at that point there is no benefit to being an employee. (Capitalists always justify their higher incomes by the fact that they are supposedly taking all the risk, and deserve the reward for that, while employees get a contract and fixed pay, therefore taking little risk, for low reward)
Be careful what you wish for.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @12:19PM
Yes. They have little responsibility at first, and yes, their parents are kind of footing the bill by providing room and board.
That's the way it's supposed to be.
If you're switching professions as an adult, then yes, that's on you. Either you have a network of friends and family to help you out on your journey, or you've saved enough money from your last role in society. That's what being a responsible adult means.